Text-edit does have a find and replace dialog with an "all" button in it. I haven't tried working with it yet, but it looks pretty straightforward.
Teresa On Sep 27, 2011, at 4:49 AM, Eugenia Firth wrote: > Hi Teresa. > I haven't tried yet to global replace control characters. In my case I have > to keep a brf file the way it is. Actually, I haven't yet figured out exactly > how to do global replaces in TextEdit. I have Pages also, but I have to > switched to TextEdit for most of my files because it has given me less grief. > > Regards, > Gigi > > On Sep 27, 2011, at 12:49 AM, Teresa Cochran wrote: > >> Hi, Gigi, >> >> Thanks a lot for the heads-up. I will check this out. I'm wondering if you >> couldn't do a search-and-replace with a brf file in text-edit and remove the >> control characters that way. Another entirely different way to go about it >> might be to use Louis and back-translate the file into a text file. Of >> course, the Braille formatting would probably be lost, and I must admit that >> I like the pretty spacing and paragraphs very much. >> >> HTh, >> Teresa >> On Sep 26, 2011, at 6:16 PM, Eugenia Firth wrote: >> >>> Hi Guys. >>> We've had some discussion before and had decided we couldn't read grade 2 >>> files on our Macs. Well, I just did it. To make it more readable, the file >>> I had first came out all in uppercase. I first selected all the text. I had >>> some bad moments at first when I tried to do a global replace and almost >>> erased all the text. However, I finally went into edit and chose >>> Transformations. One of the choices was to make the file lower case. If you >>> do that, the brf file is easier to read. The only thing is, and it's really >>> pretty minor, that I haven't figured out how to turn off the control >>> characters if you just want to read the file. I like them when I'm editing, >>> but I used to turn them off on the Braille Lite when reading. When I >>> withurned speech off, I was able to read it just fine. >>> >>> I think a lot of Web braille files, if I remember, end in cell 38, so that >>> will mean that, for the most part, the control characters will just show up >>> in cell 39 and 40. >>> >>> For those out there who want to read braille music, it might work just fine >>> this way, too. I'm not an expert on that subject. >>> Regards, >>> Gigi >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
